B. P. Nichol, who signs his published works bp Nichol, has ranged further and attempted more in his researches into language than many poets writing today. His formal experiments and his collaboration...
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Critical Essay by John Robert Colombo
During the early sixties, it was obvious that throughout the entire English-speaking world poetry was lagging far behind the visual arts, and I see bp Nichol�...
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Critical Essay by Lewis Warsh
Journeying & The Returns, [B. P. Nichol's] first book of non-concrete poetry, contains five poems, each subdivided into six or seven sections. Each section is...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Scobie
[In The Collected Works of Billy the Kid] Nichol's jokes are, however, on potentially serious subjects. To work out all the thematic implications which his fif...
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Critical Essay by Eldon Garnet
In an introduction to his book, ABC, the poet bp Nichol complains about "the artificial boundaries we have placed on the poem." It is his expressed desire...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Barbour
bp Nichol's The Martyrology is a work of major dimensions. Nichol has found a way to make the many private and personal visions that go into his poetry availa...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Scobie
In any discussion of experimental poetry in Canada, the central figure is bpNichol. (p. 213)
[Journeying & the Returns] in its very packaging provides a conven...
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Critical Essay by Jack David
Nichol's attitude towards writing (apparent or implicit) [is] one of the keys to an understanding of his work.
Nichol's goal is to escape from the barrie...
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Critical Essay by John Robert Colombo
